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Affordable and Self-build Housing

Scott is an active campaigner for affordable housing for local people. Scott was disappointed that one of the first things the newly formed Liberal Democrat/Independent Cornwall Council did was to try to reduce the percentage of affordable housing being built on council and other public owned land. This would have directly affected the people of Cornwall making it difficult to find affordable housing.

Scott successfully fought and got the council to increase the affordable housing levels on public owned land to 50 per cent. In addition, Scott proposed that the names of 9,000 people on the housing list who do not live in Cornwall should be removed. Scott will continue to campaign for affordable homes for local people and their families.

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The Chancellor produced a Budget which cut taxes for thousands of small businesses and millions of working people, as wel as extra cash for community-led housing in Cornwall

Updates

March 2016

After it's announced in November 2015 that second homes will attract an additional 3% Stamp Duty, Scott successfully lobbies the Chancellor to use this money to fund community-led self-build projects in Cornwall. The South West will get £20 million as announced in the 2016 Budget.

November 2015

The Chancellor George Osborne announces an extra 3% Stamp Duty on second homes. A second home in Cornwall worth £1 million will attract an extra £30,000 in tax, totalling £73,750. Scott begins to campaign that this money be used for community housing in North Cornwall.

June 2015

The Conservative's will deliver 200,000 Starter Homes by 2020, which will be 20% cheaper than market price and exclusively for first-time buyers. Another 200,000 affordable homes will also be built.
More land will be released for housing, with a £10 million fund to help councils bring forward brownfield land for new Starter Homes.
Right to Buy is being extended to Housing Association tenants, with a new house being built for every one sold.
The Government will launch a £1 billion brownfield regeneration fund to bring old industrial and wasteland back into use for thousands of new homes instead of building on the green belt.

Watch Scott speak about affordable homes, Starter Homes and the Right to Buy here

Are you a Housing Association tenant who wants to buy their home?

The Conservative's pledged to extend the Right to Buy to HA tenants and have since passed the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to do just that.

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